Jesus’s Confession of Ignorance and Consubstantiality

This essay argues that Jesus’s confession of ignorance about the day and hour of his return (Matt. 24:36; Mark 13:32) is logically inconsistent with the Nicene-Constantinopolitan doctrine of his "consubstantiality" (homoousia) with God the Father. The essay first defines "consubstanti...

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Main Author: Nemes, Steven ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain 2024
In: TheoLogica
Year: 2024, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 207-226
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NBC Doctrine of God
NBF Christology
Further subjects:B Incarnation
B Chalcedonian Christology
B Jesus
B Timothy Pawl
B Nicene Christology
B homoousios
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Summary:This essay argues that Jesus’s confession of ignorance about the day and hour of his return (Matt. 24:36; Mark 13:32) is logically inconsistent with the Nicene-Constantinopolitan doctrine of his "consubstantiality" (homoousia) with God the Father. The essay first defines "consubstantiality", then presents three formulations of the argument, and finally rebuts a number of possible responses: from the textual originality of the phrase "nor the Son"; from the reinterpretation of "knows" as "makes known"; from the ideas of partitive exegesis and communicatio idiomatum; and from the question of the Holy Spirit’s knowledge of the things of God.
ISSN:2593-0265
Contains:Enthalten in: TheoLogica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.14428/thl.v8i1.68353